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Word: servers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...back swing, throwing it the same second with a stab or a sweep, depending upon whether the player wants to make a long shot or a cut. The other rhythm is the movement of the spectators' faces left and right-first toward the wall as the server, after bouncing the ball, hooks it, swings it back and then forward, sending it away- then toward the players as the ball leaps back off the wall. The speed of the play is equalled only by its intricacy. The floor is marked off in 12-ft. spaces into certain of which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Jai Alai | 1/13/1930 | See Source »

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